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Michele Claibourn

I am a research director – a political scientist, data scientist, community-engaged scholar, and senior administrator – and professor with 20 years of experience teaching, leading, and managing research and data science teams.

My work centers on action-based research, using the tools of data science to promote accountable governance, make social inequities visible, and impact public policy and movement building.

Professional Experience

Leadership

Envision, design, and lead research projects with academic and community partners seeking to understand racial and other disparities and to develop policy responses. Manage multiple projects and train and mentor students engaging in community-engaged data science.

Founded StatLab, a data science consulting service for members of the UVA community. Built a new division within the library to support the growing data science research community at UVA, recruiting, hiring, and managing a team with diverse skills and talents..

Managed a team of 10-12 full-time staff, 3-4 graduate fellows, and research teams across mulitple collaborations on a range of programmatic and research projects.





Last updated on 2023-01-03.

Director of Equitable Analysis, Asst Professor of Public Policy

The Equity Center and The Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, University of Virginia

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2022 - 2021

  • Leading the Democratization of Data initiative in the UVA Equity Center to provide data tools, research and analysis in collaboration with leaders and advocates promoting regional equity.
  • Teaching courses on data ethics and practice, visualization, and equitable policy in the Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy.
  • Faculty Affiliate & Lead Data Scientist, Global Policy Center (2019-2021), using predictive analytics on the timing, magnitude, and duration of mass-displacement in partnership with Save the Children, International.

Director, Research Data Services & Sciences

UVA Library, University of Virginia

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2021 - 2013

  • Built a new research data services team to support data use and infrastructure, managed and developed library staff and services for the social, natural, and engineering sciences, and provided statistical and data science consultation and instruction to researchers across disciplines including on the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data.
  • Data Science Director, The Equity Center, 2020-2021 (partial buyout)
  • Associate Director, Data Science Institute, 2014-2016 (partial buyout)

Data Scientist

Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, University of Virginia

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2013 - 2011

  • Design and conduct quantiative research for local governments, civic sector clients, and the public interest.

Assistant Professor

University of Virginia and University of Oklahoma

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2011 - 2002

  • Department of Politics, University of Virginia (2004-2011); Department of Political Science, University of Oklahoma (2002-2004).
  • Desiged and taught graduate-level research and statistics courses and undergraduate-level courses on political behavior and political psychology.
  • Developed, implemented, and published new research on social capital, electoral responsiveness, and political communication from ideation, data collection and wrangling, analysis and communication.

Instructor

ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods, University of Michigan

N/A

2005 - 2002


Teaching and Writing

20+ years of experience teaching statistics and data science methods, policy, and political behavior to undergraduate and graduate students.

Design data workshop series for student and adult learning communities, including recruiting and mentoring instructors, marketing and assessment, and contributing to select topics.

Experienced writer in multiple formats, from university press books and peer-reviewed journal articles, to action-oriented reports for local and state agencies, educational materials, and informal writing.

Skilled in communicating about data, technology, and policy to stakeholders, advocates, and learners.

Education

PhD., Political Science

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Madison, WI

2002 - 1996

B.A, Political Science

Rice University

Houston, TX

1993 - 1989

Teaching and Mentoring

Graduate Courses

University of Virginia and University of Oklahoma

N/A

2022 - 2002

  • Imagining Equitable Policy, Public Interest Data: Ethics & Practice, Data Visualization, Saving Lives with Data, Text as Data, Applied Causal Inference, General Linear Models, Linear Models, Applied Time Series, Mixed-Effects Models/Longitudinal Analysis, Introduction to Statistical Analysis

REU Mentor

School of Data Science, UVA

N/A

2022 - 2019

University-wide Workshops

University of Virginia

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2021 - 2013

  • Data Science in R, Multiple Imputation, Cluster Analysis, Duration Models, Matching Methods, Mixed-Effects Models,Sentiment Analysis, Topic Modeling, Text Classification, Data Wrangling, Linear Modeling

Undergraduate Courses

University of Virginia and University of Oklahoma

N/A

2020 - 2002

  • Project First Gen +, Research Design & Analysis, The Presidency and the Public, Media & Political Communication, Political Pscyology & Decision Making, Citizen Competence in American Democracy, Introduction to American Politics
Methods and Software
  • Inferential and predictive modeling
  • Data visualization and computation
  • Text analytics
  • R, RStudio, Shiny
  • GitHub and reproducibility
  • Stata and SPSS
  • Some Python and SQL
  • Qualitative methods




The source code is available on github.com/mclaibourn/mpc_cv.

Publications

Confederate monuments and the history of lynching in the American South: An empirical examination

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Oct 2021 (With Kyshia Henderson, Samuel Powers, Jazmin L. Brown-Iannuzzi, and Sophie Trawalter)

N/A

2021

Citizen Participation and Congressional Responsiveness: New Evidence for Why Participation Matters

Legislative Studies Quarterly 38: 59-82 (With Paul Martin)

N/A

2013

Hearing Campaign Appeals: The Accountability Implications of Campaign Tone

Political Communication 29: 64-85

N/A

2012

Creating Constituencies: Presidential Campaigns, Selective Mobilization, and the Scope of Conflict

Political Behavior 34: 27-56 (With Paul Martin)

N/A

2012

Presidential Campaigns and Presidential Accountability

University of Illinois Press, Series on Democracy, Free Enterprise, and the Rule of Law

N/A

2011

Making a Connection: Repetition and Priming in Campaigns

Journal of Politics 70: 1142-1159

N/A

2008

The Third Face of Social Capital: How membership in Voluntary Associations Improves Policy Accountability

Political Research Quarterly 60: 192-201 (With Paul Martin)

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2007

The Influence of Campaign Advertising

Encyclopedia of Public Opinion, Greenwood Press

N/A

2005

Gender Differences in Citizen-Level Democratic Citizenship: Evidence from the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems

Presented to the International Political Science Association (2000), the Midwest Political Science Association (2001), and the Conference on Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (2002)

N/A

2002 - 2000

  • With Virginia Sapiro
  • 2001 Winner, Sophonisba Breckenridge Award for best paper on Women & Politics, Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting

Trusting and Joining: An Empirical Test of the Reciprocal Nature of Social Capital

Political Behavior 22: 267-291 (With Paul Martin)

N/A

2000

Reports, Projects, and Selected Writing

Virgina Evictors Catalog

The Equity Center, University of Virginia and The RVA Eviction Lab, Virginia Commonwealth University (With Kate Howell, Jacob Goldstein-Greenwood, Elizabeth Mitchell, Ben Teresa, Connor White, Barbara Brown Wilson, and Hannah Woerhle)

N/A

2022

Orange Dot Report 5.0: Family Self-Sufficiency in the Charlottesville Region

, Piedmont Virginia Community College and The Equity Center, University of Virginia (With Ridge Schuyler, Lee LeBoeuf, and Beth Mitchell)

N/A

2022

Charlottesville Region Climate Equity Atlas

Picturing Climate Justice Exhibit, UVA Equity Center and the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center

N/A

2022

Report for TJPDC: Charlottesville and Albemarle Eviction Cases

The Equity Center, University of Virginia (With Jacob Goldstein-Greenwood and Michael Salgueiro)

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2021

Albemarle County Equity Profile: Centering Equity in Evaluating Well-Being & Quality of LIfe for Albemarle County Residents

The Equity Center, University of Virginia (With Sam Powers, Michael Salgueiro, Siri Russell, Barbara Brown Wilson, and Alissa Ujie Diamond)

N/A

2021

Child Welfare Referrals in Charlottesville

Report to the Charlottesville Department of Social Services (With Hannah Lewis and the Public Interest Data Lab)

N/A

2020

Charlottesville Foster Care Study

Report to the Charlottesville Department of Social Services (With Charlotte McClintock and the Public Interest Data Lab)

N/A

2019

Blog posts at UVA StatLab

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N/A

2019 - 2016

Charlottesville Child Welfare Study

Report to the Charlottesville Department of Social Services (With Charlotte McClintock and the Public Interest Data Lab)

N/A

2018

Review of Competitive Elections and the American Voter, by Keena Lipsitz

Perspectives on Politics 10: 1030-1031

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2013

Red State, Blue State: Demographic Change and Presidential Politics in Virginia

Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service: Numbers Count, July (With Dustin Cable)

N/A

2012

Fourth-Year Report: Milwaukee Parental Choice Program

University of Wisconsin-Madison (With John Witte, Christopher Thorn, and Kim Pritchard)

N/A

1994

Grants and Awards

NSF CoPE Hub: Coastal Futures: Building Capacity for Data-driven Adaptation in Rural Coastal Communities

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N/A

2026 - 2021

  • Senior Personnel (PI: Karen McGlathery)

A Housing Justice Atlas for Virginia

4-VA at UVA Collaborative Research Program, University of Virginia

N/A

2021

  • Co-Principal Investigator, with Barbara Brown Wilson, Kate Howell, Ben Teresa

The Charlottesville Regional Equity Atlas: Co-Creating with Our Community

New Venture Fund’s Public Interest Technology University Network Challenge

N/A

2021

  • Principal Investigator, with Barbara Brown Wilson

Building a Collaborative Regional Equity Atlas

Institute for Museum and Library Services

N/A

2020 - 2018

  • Co-Principal Investigator, with Rebecca Coleman

Thrive Grant for Project First Gen Plus

Office of the Provost and Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Virginia

N/A

2019

  • Co-Principal Investigator, with Paul Martin

Creating a Data Catalog to Promote Access to Open Health Data

National Network of Libraries of Medicine

N/A

2018 - 2017

  • Co-Principal Investigator, with Bart Ragon

Summer Research Grant

Vice-President for Research, University of Virginia

N/A

2006 - 2005

Excellence in Diversity Fellow

University of Virginia

N/A

2006 - 2005

Junior Faculty Research Grant

University of Oklahoma

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2004 - 2003

Faculty Enrichment Grant

College of Arts and Sciences, University of Oklahoma

N/A

2003

Instructional Technology Grant

College of Arts and Sciences, University of Oklahoma

N/A

2002

Midwest Political Science Association Sophonisba Breckenridge Award

Best paper on Women in Politics presented at the annual meeting

N/A

2001

National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant

University of Wisconsin-Madison

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2000

Clara Penniman Fellowship

Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin

N/A

1999

Recent Presentations

Workshop, Centering Equity in Data Visualization

Psychology Department DEI Colloquiam, UVA

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2022

Speaker, Thoughts on Equitable Data Analysis

Virginia Equity Cohort, School of Data Science and Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, UVA

N/A

2022

Webinar, Mapping Inequity: Partnering for Data-Informed Decision Making

International City/County Management Association

N/A

2021

Speaker, Racial Covenants: The Continuing Legacy of Exclusionary Housing Practices in Albemarle County

Albemarle County

N/A

2021

Presenter, Albemarle County Equity Profile

Albemarle County Community Advisory Committees/Board of Supervisors

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2021

Discussant, Data Feminism with Lauren Klein

Online Ethics Center, UVA

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2021

Panelist, Being a Good Neighbor in Charlottesville

Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy

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2021

Presenter, Albemarle Equity Profile

Albemarle County Board of Supervisors

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2021

Speaker, A Justice-Oriented Data Science

Girls Hoo Code

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2020

Panelist, Data for Social Good in Charlottesville

TomTom Foundation’s Cities Rising Summit

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2020

Panelist, Racial Equity and Technology

Public Interest Technology-University Network

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2020

Panel Chair and Moderator

Data & Democracy, School of Data Science Datapalooza, University of Virginia

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2019

Homework and Hubris: Preparing for Community-Engaged Courses

Innovations in Teaching Pedagogy Summit, University of Virginia (With Paul Martin)

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2019

Smaller on the Outside: Supporting Researchers through Library andResearch Computing/IT Collaborations

Southeastern University Research Association IT Meeting

N/A

2018

Imagining New Ways to Engage Political News

UVA Library

N/A

2017

From Last to Ancient First: Merging Research Data Services & Social,Natural, Engineering Liaisons.

Association of College and Research Libraries Conference

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2017

Bigger on the Inside: Integrating Research Data Services in Campus-Wide Networks

Coalition for Networked Information Fall Meeting

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2016

Presidential Debate Analysis in R

UVA/CVille R User Meetup

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2016

2016 Presidential Debates: Text as Data

Conference, University of Virginia and UVA/CvilleR User Meetup

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2016

Congressional Earmarks and the Politcs of Representation

Center for the Study of Data and Knowledge, University of Virginia

N/A

2016

Data Services as Information Services: or, Old Wine, New Bottle

ALA Midwinter Meeting (With Ivey Glendon)

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2014

Population Projections by Demographic Details: A Multi-Layered Approach

Annual Meeting of the Population Association of Americann (With Rebecca Tippett and Qian Cai)

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2013

Multilevel Modeling for Population Projections: Projections for Virginia

Southern Demographic Association

N/A

2012

Professional Activities and Service

Batten Curricular Committee

University of Virginia

N/A

2022 - 2021

Search Committee

Data Scientist, MDI Predictive Displacement Project, Save the Children, International

N/A

2021 - 2019

Reimagine CVA Advisory Board

Center for Nonprofit Excellence and United Way of Greater Charlottesville

N/A

2019 - 2020

Search Committee

Associate University Librarian for Research and Learning Services, UVA

N/A

2019

MAPP2Health Data Evaluation Committee

Thomas Jefferson Health District

N/A

2019 - 2018

Data Science Undergraduate Certificate Committee

University of Virginia

N/A

2019 - 2018

Co-founder and co-organizer

UVA/CVille R Meetup

N/A

2019 - 2014

Judge, MSDS Capstone Projects

Systems & Information Engineering Design Symposium, UVA

N/A

2019 - 2015

Data Science Advisory Board

University of Virginia

N/A

2018 - 2014

Journal and Award Reviewer

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N/A

2018 - 2002

  • American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, Political Behavior, Political Psychology, Political Research Quarterly, American Politics Research, Politics and Gender, National Science Foundation, Time-Sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences

Advanced Computing Steering Committee

University of Virginia

N/A

2017 - 2014

Organizer and Host, UVA DataFest

University of Virginia

N/A

2016

Quantitative Collaborative Steering Committee

Colleges of Arts & Sciences, University of Virginia

N/A

2015 - 2013

Planning Committee for Graduate Certificate in Survey Research Methods

Colleges of Arts & Sciences, University of Virginia

N/A

2013 - 2012

Section Chair, Elections and Voting Behavior

American Political Science Association Annual Meeting

N/A

2012

Philip E. Converse Book Award Committee

American Political Science Association’s Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior Section

N/A

2011

Graduate Admissions Committee

Department of Politics, University of Virginia

N/A

2011 - 2010

Undergraduate Studies Committee

Department of Politics, University of Virginia

N/A

2011 - 2004

Section Chair, Electoral Campaigns

Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting

N/A

2008

Quantitative Reasoning Assessment Committee

University of Virginia

N/A

2008 - 2007

Planning Committee for conference on Polling and Democracy

Miller Center for Public Affairs, University of Virginia

N/A

2008 - 2007

Comparative Politics Search Committee

Department of Politics, University of Virginia

N/A

2008 - 2007

Graduate Student Selection Committee

Society of Political Methodology’s Annual Meeting

N/A

2007 - 2006

Kennedy Oral History Research Director Search Committee

Miller Center for Public Affairs, University of Virginia

N/A

2005

Undergraduate Honors Thesis award committee

Department of Politics, University of Virginia

N/A

2005